Economists have spent decades analyzing why some countries grow and others don’t. You can talk for ages about factors like education, disposable income, export growth, interest rates, business and tax ...

In this article, we will be covering the 20 countries with the highest age dependency ratio in the world. If you wish to skip our detailed analysis, you can move directly to the 5 Countries with the ...

Since the Social Security Trustees' Report was released on June 5th, there have been a flurry of articles telling us that, alternately, either we should all be Very Worried or that, to the contrary, ...

Zambia is far from alone. A report from Charles Robertson at Renaissance Capital in November advises investors to be wary of countries with current-account deficits combined with fertility rates which ...

Editor’s Note: Is America really about to suffer an economic crisis at the hands of its aging population? But the magnitude of the coming demographic challenges — namely the prospect of a burgeoning ...

A lower dependency ratio does not necessarily mean higher growth rates ...

Readers, it is but mere coincidence that the day after once again revisiting old-age dependency ratios in light of the coming insolvency of the Social Security Trust Fund, the CDC released its 2019 ...